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19th Century Love Letter Holds Up. ... At the moment I write this letter, ... What the restorer found in the antique chair was a letter — a 200-year-old love letter.
The auction today includes more than 300 other items, including letters and autographs from U.S. presidents — such as John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt — to 19th-century soprano Jenny ...
To the editor — Many of the problems that confront us come from 19th century thinking. For example, the 19th century notion that any chemical you dump into the environment ...
But the major means of divorce in the 19th century was probably just leaving town. GROSS: (Laughter). ULRICH: And men did that more easily than women. But bigamy was pretty common in the 19th century.
One of the women in the book, Alice Grierson, physically separated from her husband in 1871 when their seventh child died at 3 months old. In a letter to him, she left a description of her ...
In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.
A Brooklyn woman was shocked when she received a weathered, kiss-sealed letter last week that her mother sent for her 19th birthday — in 1969! The wayward letter arrived at the childhood home of ...
I am a Naturopathic Doctor and I am writing in opposition to Mark Brnovich’s effort to rollback abortion rights for women in Arizona to an archaic 19th century standard. I ...
Black Sheep Burgers & Shakes in Springfield, Missouri, offers people free meals on Christmas. One elderly woman dined there and left staff a heartfelt note.
Advice books in the 19th century had awfully long titles. Take, for example, the subject of this article, The fashionable American letter writer; or, The art of polite correspondence.Containing a ...
Why is this 19th century woman ... that a man in a 346-year-old Dutch painting appear to be holding an iPhone. The painting in question was "Man Handing a Letter to Woman in the Entrance ...